Abstract: The present disclosure is directed a magnetic resonance apparatus with a scanner unit, a patient receiving area at least partially surrounded by the scanner unit, wherein the scanner unit includes an enclosure at least partially surrounding the patient receiving area, and a patient support apparatus with a patient table, wherein the patient table is embodied to move horizontally within the patient receiving area, wherein the magnetic resonance apparatus comprises a cleaning unit for cleaning the enclosure surrounding the patient receiving area, wherein the cleaning unit is at least partially arranged on the patient table.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to concentrated, alkaline, hypochlorite compositions with a magnesium salt. The disclosed compositions have improved stability and can be used for cleaning, bleaching, or as an antimicrobial composition.

Abstract: A refillable ballast anchor vessel and, more particularly, but not exclusively, a refillable ballast anchor vessel filled by the user with available ballast and connected by an anchor line to a floating object.

Abstract: A gas pressure spring is provided, including a working piston which is guided displaceably in a working cylinder along a stroke axis, a compensating cylinder encloses the working cylinder, and a compensating piston which is of hollow-cylindrical shape and is guided displaceably in the compensating cylinder along the stroke axis. The working cylinder has an open end, at which the compensating cylinder forms a projection beyond the working cylinder with a closed end. The compensating piston separates a working chamber, which is arranged in the working cylinder, a compensating chamber, which is arranged between the working cylinder and the compensating cylinder, and a restoring chamber, which is arranged in the projection from one another. A distance, radially with respect to the stroke axis, of the compensating cylinder from the working cylinder is greater in the stroke range than in an end region of the working cylinder.

Abstract: A method for monitoring the operation of a centrifugal pump includes multiple steps. In one step, the method establishes whether the centrifugal pump is in a stable operating state. The centrifugal pump has a three-phase drive motor. In another step, the method monitors, when the stable operating state exists, at least one characteristic variable of the three-phase drive motor in order to establish whether there is an impeller blockage. When the impeller blockage is identified, in a further step the method activates the impeller to free-wheel. When the impeller blockage is not identified, the method also includes analyzing a frequency spectrum of a motor current to identify impairment of the centrifugal pump, and shuts down the three-phase drive motor by following a downward speed ramp if the impeller blockage is identified.

Abstract: A method is provided for operating a door opening apparatus for a refrigeration appliance. The door opening apparatus includes at least one plunger to open at least one refrigeration appliance door of the refrigeration appliance. In at least one detection step, a pressure is detected in an interior space of the refrigeration appliance, in particular by a sensor unit of the door opening apparatus. In at least one analysis step, at least one position of the at least one plunger of the door opening apparatus is determined as a function of the detected pressure, providing improved properties with respect to operating convenience and/or efficiency of use. A door opening apparatus and a refrigeration appliance are also provided.

Abstract: A refrigeration device has at least one interior container which delimits at least one interior space, at least one separator element which divides the at least one interior space into a receiving area for storing stored goods and an evaporator area, and at least one pressure sensor for detecting a pressure of the at least one interior space. In order to provide improved properties in respect of operational safety and/or reliability, the at least one pressure sensor is arranged in the evaporator area.

Abstract: A method for operating a refrigerator includes detecting a pressure in at least one interior of the refrigerator in at least one detection step by using at least one sensor unit of the refrigerator. The detected pressure is evaluated by at least one evaluation unit of the refrigerator in at least one analysis step and, depending on a result of the at least one analysis step, at least one door opening step for opening at least one refrigerator door of the refrigerator is initiated. Improved characteristics regarding user convenience and/or efficient use is provided by the at least one analysis step being initiated when the detected pressure exceeds an activation threshold value and, in the at least one analysis step, a pressure course above an opening threshold value different from the activation threshold value is evaluated. A refrigerator for carrying out the method is also provided.

Abstract: An electrical connector, in particular for signal and/or power transmission, preferably for charging electric vehicles or of accumulators of electrical vehicles, has a coupling housing for connection to a corresponding second electrical connector. A locking clip on the coupling housing can be moved from an open position to a closed position. The locking clip has a recess into which a locking element of the second connector can be inserted in the open position of the locking clip, and in the closed position of the locking clip, the locking element is arranged in the recess such that the coupling housing is form-fit and/or force-fit connected to the second connector. A latching apparatus with at least one latching element engages in a latching receptacle of the locking clip in the closed position. An electrically movable locking element is arranged which inhibits movement of the latching element in a locking position.

Abstract: A household refrigeration appliance apparatus for insertion into a refrigeration sector of a household refrigeration appliance provides the household refrigeration appliance apparatus with improved properties with respect to cabling. The household refrigeration appliance apparatus includes a control unit for controlling at least one functional unit, and an interface unit for connecting the control unit to a main control unit of the household refrigeration appliance. A no-frost apparatus, a household refrigeration appliance and a method for operating a household refrigeration appliance, are also provided.

Abstract: A gypsum-based acoustic panel wherein in the panel includes a core layer of foamed gypsum, face side and back side layers of non-woven encasing the core layer, and the panel has an alphaw-value of between 0.4 and 0.7 and specific flow resistances of <15000 Pa s/m, methods for their preparation and their uses.

Abstract: An instrument (e.g., a thermal cycler) includes a consumable compartment configured to receive multiple height consumables, and a lid for opening or closing the consumable compartment. The lid includes a motor, a pressure plate, a compression bar, and a cam and a follower. The compression bar has a first side (e.g., bottom) coupled to the pressure plate and a second side (e.g., top) at which the cam and the follower is disposed. The cam is drivably coupled to the motor and the follower is coupled to the compression bar to induce translation of the compression bar when engaged with the cam. The cam includes a cam profile configured to adjust a height of the pressure plate between different height consumables to apply a pre-determined pressure. The motor can also operate a latch assembly to latch the lid before activating the cam and follower assembly.

Abstract: A fluid damper is provided including a cylinder filled with a damping fluid, a piston base body shiftably guided in the cylinder along a stroke axis, and a valve disk spaced apart from a shell wall of the cylinder. The piston base body divides an inner space of the cylinder into a front space and a rear space along the stroke axis. In the piston base body, there is at least one channel connecting the front space to the rear space in a fluid-conducting manner. The valve disk is shiftably guided along the stroke axis between an opening position unblocking the at least one channel and a closing position closing the at least one channel. The valve disk has a central area extending radially outward from the stroke axis, the central area being free of apertures.

Abstract: This invention relates to compounds that may be useful as inhibitors of Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase Kinase Kinase Kinase-4 (MAP4K4). The invention also relates to the use these compounds, for example in a method of treatment of cardiac conditions.

Abstract: Various techniques are provided for efficiently mapping synthesized components to physical hardware components of a PLD. In one example, a method includes receiving a design identifying operations to be performed by a programmable logic device (PLD). The method also includes converting the operations to a plurality of synthesized components. The method also includes mapping a selected one of the synthesized components to a model associated with first and second types of hardware components of the PLD. The selected synthesized component is compatible with first and second specifications of the first and second types of hardware components, respectively. The method also includes assigning the selected synthesized component to a physical location of the PLD comprising either the first type of hardware component or the second type of hardware component to improve a performance metric of the PLD configured with the design. Additional devices, systems and methods are also provided.

Abstract: Method for the operation of a cleaning system of a medical imaging facility, wherein the imaging facility has an outer useful surface exposed to contaminating effects of patients and/or operators. During a utilization phase for an examination procedure of a patient, sensor data of a sensor arrangement detecting at least a portion of the useful surface is acquired and by evaluation of the sensor data, a surface map having potentially contaminated regions of the useful surface is determined. During a cleaning phase following the utilization phase, cleaning information of the potentially contaminated regions are output to a cleaner and/or used for actuation of at least one cleaning apparatus of the imaging facility for targeted cleaning of the potentially contaminated regions.

Abstract: A gas pressure spring is provided including a working piston which is guided displaceably in a working cylinder along a stroke axis, a compensating cylinder encloses the working cylinder, and a compensating piston which is of hollow-cylindrical shape and is guided displaceably in the compensating cylinder along the stroke axis. The working cylinder has an open end, at which the compensating cylinder forms a projection beyond the working cylinder with a closed end. The compensating piston separates a working chamber, which is arranged in the working cylinder, a compensating chamber, which is arranged between the working cylinder and the compensating cylinder, and a restoring chamber, which is arranged in the projection from one another. A distance, radially with respect to the stroke axis, of the compensating cylinder from the working cylinder is greater in the stroke range than in an end region of the working cylinder.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to concentrated, alkaline, hypochlorite compositions with a magnesium salt. The disclosed compositions have improved stability and can be used for cleaning, bleaching, or as an antimicrobial composition.

Abstract: Methods for producing high concentration protein formulations having high stability are provided. Assays for selecting proteins and formulation conditions that have high self-repulsive attributes are used as an early step in the manufacturing process. Specifically, a protein concentration-dependent self-interaction nanoparticle spectroscopy method is employed as a protein colloidal interaction assay.